There are
infinite variations for how to share wordless books with young children.

As a first step,
informally look at a wordless book with an individual child or a small
group of children. This can be a very effective ELD strategy to assess
the student or students' oral language proficiency in this situation.
You can also determine if the student or students are aware of the notion
of story. Understanding that stories have beginnings, middles
and ends is an important step in reading and writing for young
children.

Using comments
like: "What is happening here?" "What do you see in this
picture?" and "What do you think is going to happen next?"
will encourage children to share what they are seeing and to transact
with the pictures on the page.

Children will begin
to internalize the process of predicting and confirming as they do a
book walk with you through the text. Predicting and confirming ideas
and understandings of text is an important READING STRATEGY for all
age readers.

Use wordless
picture books with all age learners. This is a powerful curricular opportunity
for newcomers to English language instruction, middle school and junior
high students during startegy instruction and mini-lessons, as well as for
young readers.